LabelList and labelText

Hello everyone

I'm trying a few different things, which are new to me and which I never tried to put into my mods before. Now I have been reading about labelText and labelList .

To study how this works, I have copied a vanilla bus Aboag to a new one and made a change in the mdl file. I changed the type to "CUSTOM" and renderMode to EMISSIVE, because I want to send a custom selected text from a construction, but it shouldn't work directly when studying.

I need some help to get a hint on how the code should look like.

I attach here the two files that I use for my test.

You helped me a lot ! Thank you.

I got the text after I made the construction clickable, but the effect of EMISSIVE is not what I was expecting. STD and EMMISIVE is the same

I am wondering if I can update a LabelText directly from a gamescript. In the confile I have access to the index of result.models, but I do not have this in my script.

I have found some other mods that update in script, but those functions are called from a .con file and so you can easily include the "result" table in the call.

I do find information in the MODEL_INSTANCE_LIST in the construction, where I can retrieve the modelId. However, with the modelId of the model that holds the labelList, I am unable to get the text to appear.

Is this the right way to get to the goal?

My gamescript runs in "function update()"

Now I have come up with a dynamic construction, which puts a desired number in my display. However, I have a little problem as the number disappears from the display when I zoom out.

With other models and materials I can always choose Polygon Offset and forceDeepWrite. In the case of labelText there is no material, so my question is is there any trick?

The only thing I can think of is to increase the distance between labelText and the display, but then the text risks floating in the air in front of the display if you stand close and look.

After I succeeded in my first project, I am using my experience in my next one. I have now suddenly lost the display of Labeltext in the game. However, I can see the sample number "123" in the new model in the Model-editor. The position is clearly above the base surface and I have tried removing the base (the yellow square completely) and still no text is visible in the game.

I have cleared the shader and texture case and right now I don't understand why the Model-editor can show but not in the game. Is there something I should check? It has been working a few days ago...

(There is no error in the log file)

Here is my code snippet that I am now using for testing in the con file. I have also configured a number of groundFaces in the confile (not viewed in the snippet below), so that the construction is clickable in the game.

        result.models[#result.models + 1] = { id = "industry/lane.mdl",    transf = transf.rotZTransl ( math.rad(0), vec3.new(110, 60, 0)) }
        result.models[#result.models + 1] = { id = "industry/lane.mdl",    transf = transf.rotZTransl ( math.rad(0), vec3.new(0, 60, 0)) }

        result.models[#result.models + 1] = { id = "asset/pe_vBox_test.mdl", transf = transf.rotZTransl ( math.rad(-30), vec3.new(85.8, 44.55, 0)) }
        vbNum = tostring(math.random(1000, 2999))
        result.labelText[#result.models-1] = {vbNum,vbNum,vbNum}
        print('#result.models = ',#result.models,"    ,number to write in all three labels = ",vbNum)

        result.models[#result.models+1] = { id = "asset/pe_vBox_test.mdl", transf = transf.rotZTransl ( math.rad(-30), vec3.new(78.8, 44.55, 0)) }
        vbNum = tostring(math.random(3000, 4999))
        result.labelText[#result.models-1] = {vbNum,vbNum,vbNum}
        print('#result.models = ',#result.models,"    ,number to write in all three labels = ",vbNum)
        print('debugPrint "labelText" table =')
        debugPrint(result.labelText)
        print('debugPrint "result.models" table =')
        debugPrint(result.models)

The print result will be as follows:

The strange thing is if I delete one of the initial ‘lane.mdl’ then the result on the labelText table becomes corrupt.

This code example has one less mdl in initial configuration. I expect the labelText table to start at one index number lower than the first.

        result.models[#result.models + 1] = { id = "industry/lane.mdl",    transf = transf.rotZTransl ( math.rad(0), vec3.new(110, 60, 0)) }
--        result.models[#result.models + 1] = { id = "industry/lane.mdl",    transf = transf.rotZTransl ( math.rad(0), vec3.new(0, 60, 0)) }

        result.models[#result.models + 1] = { id = "asset/pe_vBox_test.mdl", transf = transf.rotZTransl ( math.rad(-30), vec3.new(85.8, 44.55, 0)) }
        vbNum = tostring(math.random(1000, 2999))
        result.labelText[#result.models-1] = {vbNum,vbNum,vbNum}
        print('#result.models = ',#result.models,"    ,number to write in all three labels = ",vbNum)

        result.models[#result.models+1] = { id = "asset/pe_vBox_test.mdl", transf = transf.rotZTransl ( math.rad(-30), vec3.new(78.8, 44.55, 0)) }
        vbNum = tostring(math.random(3000, 4999))
        result.labelText[#result.models-1] = {vbNum,vbNum,vbNum}
        print('#result.models = ',#result.models,"    ,number to write in all three labels = ",vbNum)
        print('debugPrint "labelText" table =')
        debugPrint(result.labelText)
        print('debugPrint "result.models" table =')
        debugPrint(result.models)

Print result from second test:

Note that the labelText table is completely different from the initial

If I remove both lane.mdl configurations and start directly with my .mdl, I get even more strange results on the labelText table.

My interpretation of these results is that when LabelText is given index [1], things happen that you would not expect.

Unfortunately, I haven't yet found the reason why I don't get any text in the game.

Now I've found the cause and it's so incredible I can hardly believe it's true.

I started developing my design as a station, but a few days ago I changed it to an industry. After some more time, I happened to see that labelText was not visible on some of the objects.

It is quite clear that labelText does not work on objects in a construction defined as industry.

Reading on the TpF2 Wiki, I understand the description in a different way.

Am I interpreting the text wrong, should it not be possible to use industry?

I have redone a similar test as before but now with ‘type = “RAIL_STATION_CARGO”,’ and an extra object with labelText, so the three get index 0, 1 and 2. The table labelText looks strange to me, but the result works in the game.

If I put two or more .mdl objects before the objects containing the labelText definition, the index number of each labelText appears on the left of all rows. It is for me somewhat confusing.